Brewarrina, 1932-1937 / photographed by Reverend Canon A. Leyland Bird

Brewarrina
1. View of Brewarrina township looking west with town clerk's office & residence in foreground, post office right, Presbyterian Church left, the Red Hill in distance, taken from the roof of Christ church
2. The rectory (now demolished) from the back with two Bush Brothers outside the detached kitchen, saltbush hedge
3. Sunday school picnic from Christ Church on the Red Hill
4. Christ Church, a brick building on black soil. Police station behind
5. Christ Church interior
6. The children of Christ Church outside the church

District churches
7. St George's, Lightning Ridge after cyclone
8. New St. George's, Lightning Ridge, built by opal miners
9. Mana Creek church with congregation
10. Consecration of Carinda church by Bishop Arnold Wylde, Bishop of Bathurst with two Bush Brothers
11. Children of the Aboriginal Mission School near Brewarrina
12. Old Aboriginal men at Angledool
13. Opal mine, Lightning Ridge

The Bush
14. Tame kangaroo
15. Uncleared bush
16. Barwon River
17. Emus, Nineteen Mile Plain
18. Humpy
19. A ...
20. Surprised! Kangaroo at water tank
21. The track in red country
22-23. Flocks of galahs
24. Nanan lake from a windmill
25. Ibis nests on Nanan Lake
26. Artesian bore near Cumborah
27. Clearing a bore drain
28. Chinaman's grave
29. Road between Brewarrina and Bourke
30. Wild clover after a month's rain
31. Abundant feed
32. Angledool Station homestead
33. Governor Sir Philip Game, right, has the Aboriginal fishery explained to him by Mr Shore, Barwon river, Brewarrina
34. Sir Philip and Lady Game visit Charlton Station homestead on the Bogan River; left to right, front, Munro Martin, overseer, Dulcie Tarbolton (later Mrs Bird), Lady Game, Gerald Loughnan, manager, Sir Philip Game, Mrs Molly Loughnan, Rosemary Game; behind, Martin Witty, jackeroo, and Philip Game; front, the Loughnan children, Elizabeth, Margaret and Kenneth

Sheep
35-36. Koalas
37. Boiling the billy
38. Picnic
39. The track
40. A school
41-42. The bush - with unusual clouds!
43-44. Merino sheep
45-48a. Examining the fleece
49-50. Rams
51. Drovers camping - turn out on left
52. Dead and bogged sheep at tank - drought
53. Dead sheep - no feed after dry spell
54. The scour, Brewarrina
55. Bull at gate
56. Cattle in yards

Transport
57. Signpost between Warren and Brewarrina, on Mana Creek
58. Railway between Nyngan and Byrock
59. Wyuna Downs siding between Byrock and Brewarrina
60. Nevertire Railway Station
61. Crossing the railway bridge at Tarcoon over the Bogan River. There was no road bridge then - hazardous
62. Car on the bridge over Mana Creek - no sides, no middle!
63. Punt across the Darling River at Louth
64. Bridge over dry creek
65. Track on the Boonie watercourse near Brewarrina
66. Bush timber bridge over a creek
67-68. Causeways
69. Mending puncture on A model Ford on Bourke road
70. Going to school - water tank
71. Loughnan children crossing the Bogan on the raft supervised by the Bush Brothers
72. Hotel and petrol bowser
73. Track from the red soil of Lightning Ridge down to the black soil towards Collarenebri
74. NSW and Queensland border fence between Goodooga and Hebel
75. Boundary gate
76. Ramp at a cyclone gate
77. A run-through at a boundary fence
78. Wet black soil picking up between Brewarrina and Goodooga on the Nineteen Mile Plain
79. Bogged on red soil near Byrock
80. Boggy patch
81. Bore-sinker's oxen team
82. Camel team
83. Horse team with about 10 tons of wool from the Mana to Brewarrina railhead
84. Angledool Station bullock team (17 oxen) with 10 tons of wool  ... the Rotten Plain on the direct track to Walgett railhead

Brewarrina, 1932-1937 / photographed by Reverend Canon A. Leyland Bird

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